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Annual Preview Day Offers Prospective Students an Inside Look at The Evergreen State College

Written by Evergreen Communications Office on December 14, 2010 at 12:00 pm

(Olympia, Wash.) The Evergreen State College in Olympia is rolling out the welcome mat for prospective undergraduate students and their families with its annual Preview Day on Saturday, January 15. Visitors will get an inside look at Evergreen's nationally recognized interdisciplinary curriculum; learn about specific areas of academic interest and how Evergreen students design customized academic pathways to meet their personal and career goals; meet and ask questions of faculty members and students; and have an opportunity to tour classrooms, labs, residence halls and other facilities on Evergreen's unique thousand-acre campus. The full-day event begins with a welcome session at 9 a.m. in the Daniel Evans Library building second floor lobby and continues until 4 p.m.

The Evergreen State College is a nationally recognized public liberal arts and sciences college known for its distinctive interdisciplinary approach to education. Evergreen has been noted as one of the nation's top colleges by the Princeton Review, Colleges of Distinction, and US News & World Report. The book "Colleges That Change Lives" (www.ctcl.org) by former New York Times education editor Loren Pope, praises Evergreen as one of the three best liberal arts colleges on the West Coast. The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) notes that Evergreen excels in areas that lead to student success. Evergreen is also noted as one of America's top "green" colleges, recognizing its leadership in sustainability.